On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM, John W Higgins<[email protected]> wrote: > Good Morning Jeffrey, > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Jeffrey Altman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm just wondering. Why do you believe that the file server >> (or other) processes are writing to your volumes as opposed to >> reading from them or writing to log (or other) files? >> > > First, thanks for the response..... > > I'm basing this on a couple of things - first when I shut down the OpenAFS > server the disk activity stops. Second, I ran iotop to examine the io usage > and the writes were going to the 2 loop devices I was using to test OpenAFS > and nothing else is using that area but OpenAFS.
I assume iotop lists process names; Given that there's no process called OpenAFS, what did it really tell you? Does it list fds? > And finally, top shows > fileserver popping up every 10 seconds when the disk activity to the loop > devices is occurring and then it goes back to sleep. > > Is it possible that because I'm using loop devices something out of the norm > is occuring? Unlikely. What version of OpenAFS? I suppose it's possible the background sync thread is in some way hurting you. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
